Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
Parental satisfaction with the quality of care in a South African paediatric intensive care unit
... Communication and support from healthcare professionals were highlighted in the open-ended questions as being important to parents or guardians. Receiving understandable information about the PICU and their child’s ...
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Characteristics, course and outcomes of children admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit after cardiac arrest
... The main objectives of this study were: to describe the characteristics, course and outcomes of patients admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) following cardiac arrest;[r] ...
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Enhancing teamwork communication and patient safety responsiveness in a paediatric intensive care unit using the daily safety huddle tool
... Background Open communication between leadership and frontline staff at the unit level is vital in promoting safe hospital culture. Our hospital staff culture survey identified the failure to address safety issues ...
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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
... Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit A W Norrashidah, MMed*, B H 0 Azizi, FRCP**, M A Zulfiqa[.] ...
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Profile of Children Ventilated in Paediatric Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital
... This is to certify that the dissertation titled, “Profile of children ventilated in Paediatric Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital” submitted by Dr. A.R Mullai Baalaaji, to ...
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Clinico-microbiological profile of health-care associated infections in a paediatric intensive care unit of tertiary care hospital
... 6. Gupta A, Kapil A, Lodha R, Kabra SK, Sood S, Dhawan B, et al. Burden of healthcare-associated infections in a paediatric intensive care unit of a developing country: a single centre ...
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Nosocomial Pneumonia among Ventilated Children in Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
... the intensive care unit must be done cautiously, because pain can limit deep breathing and impair ...the intensive care unit by ...
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A comparison between raw and predicted mortality in a paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa
... 500 paediatric ICU patients in a combined PNICU in a tertiary referral hospital in South Africa, found a mortality rate of ...the paediatric admissions had a high or very high risk diagnosis indicating that ...
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Reducing the number of unnecessary liver function tests requested on the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
... the project could not have been realised. Engagement and collaboration with the Critical Care manager avoided con fl ict with the laboratory manager and led to an agreement for regular data sharing. Support of ...
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Validation of Renal Angina Index (RAI) to improve the prediction of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in critically ill children admitted to paediatric intensive care unit (PICU)
... Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with length of stay for at least 48 hours in PICU, at Institute of Child Health and Research Centre, Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai over a period of 6 months ...
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Predictors of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia of Neonate in a Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
... Background: Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is defined as nosocomial pneumonia develops 48 hours or more after initiation of mechanical ventilation. Hospital acquired infection (HAI) is the second most common ...
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Prevalence of burnout among the health team workers at paediatric intensive care unit
... Background: Paediatricians work in the ICU have to deal with babies who have serious or chronic conditions associated with multiple problems and they have to interact with their stressed and often fatigued parents. This ...
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A Study on the Validation of paediatric index of mortality 2 (PIM2) score in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit of CMC, Vellore
... admissions to include at least 20 deaths. As a check on the accuracy of data collection, a sample of the data was collected in duplicate. The information from the above was used as a learning sample to determine the ...
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Suspicion of respiratory tract infection with multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae: epidemiology and risk factors from a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
... long-term care fa- cilities, children with previous hospitalization within the last year or from high-prevalence countries are screened routinely for bacteria and resistances on ...patient care, tracheal ...
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Sepsis epidemiology and outcome in the paediatric intensive care unit of Vilnius University Children’s Hospital
... The median age for septic patients treated in paediatric ICU was 2.4 years (due to uneven dis- tribution, average value was not measured), most of them being male. The average length of hospi- talization was 16.1 ...
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Study of role of oral probiotics in patients on ventilator in paediatric Intensive Care Unit at tertiary care center
... Background: The normal intestinal microbiota of critically ill patients is altered and replaced by pathogens. Any significant insult to the gut or alteration to its microbiota plays a role in promoting systemic ...
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Circumstances surrounding dying in the paediatric intensive care unit
... ily, the consent rate could increase [21,24]. Furthermore education and discussion between physicians and pathol- ogists may increase the autopsy rate [19,20,23,24]. The finding that families of paediatric ...
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Implementation and evaluation of a paediatric nurse-driven sedation protocol in a paediatric intensive care unit
... French paediatric study showed in a sub- group analysis a shorter length of mechanical ventilation among children older than 12 months after implemen- tation of the protocol ...
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Vol 9, No 4 (2015)
... Hospital paediatric ward or paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), from lower-level facilities in KwaZulu-Natal between January and June ...
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Soumyashree
... under paediatric department (neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and ward), BIMS hospital, Belagavi, who expired during their ...
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